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eMOLT Update 2023-04-07
This update is a short one since it’s a short week for schools in
Massachusetts and my kids will be home all day today.
I’d offer up a warm New England welcome to Linus Stoltz, but we all
know such a thing doesn’t really exist. So Linus, have a cold, foggy
welcome I guess. In all seriousness, the eMOLT team is very excited that
Linus is coming over from the West Coast to join CFRF in Rhode Island as
their data manager. He has a bunch of experience working with the crab
industry to monitor dissolved oxygen and temperature using very
similar technology to what’s in use in DMF’s Cape Cod Bay Study Fleet
and those of you in eMOLT with DO sensors and Lowell Deck Data Hubs.
We’re looking forward to improving the data pipelines between our
programs so that all the information you collect on the water will be
that much more valuable to scientists. 
We continue to work with the team at Lowell to merge deckbox
software. As mentioned in last week’s email, here’s a look at the
dimming feature we’re testing with our hardware.

Additionally, we are continuing our effort to make sure the data from
eMOLT can be put to use in a range of applications. In this effort, we
are also working with other research groups inside NOAA to make sure
taxpayer funded data collections are available to the public. Progress
on this front isn’t always quick because the amount of red tape (even
internal) to go through is substantial, but we are making progress. The
2022 non-realtime eMOLT data were supposed to go live online today, but
that’s been pushed back to next week. In the meantime, the data from the
last 20 years are available on the NEFSC ERDDAP server here.
Realtime Summary (Vessels with Rockblock Satellite
Transmitters)
This week, we received 40 haul-averaged reports from 5 vessels.

In the figure above, you can see the approximate locations where we
received “Status Reports” (a ping from your system letting us know that
it’s still working) and “Data Uploads” (actual temperature / depth data
collected by your probes). The “Status Reports” come in every 12 hours
or so when a system is powered up. “Data Uploads” only come in when you
haul the probes. If you were out fishing and don’t see your approximate
locations on here, please reach out because there may be a problem with
your system.
Thanks to an email from Capt. Joe Barrow (F/V Ryan Joseph), we were
able to identify a bug in our system that’s causing some vessels to not
show up. Please let us know if your vessel seems to be affected as we
work to clean that up. Thanks for all of your communication. Your
feedback helps us make the system more efficient and resilient.
Bottom Temperature Forecasts
We plan to add more animations to this section with other models
in the future
Northeast Coastal Ocean Forecast System (NECOFS)

Above, please find the bottom temperature forecasts at one hour
intervals from the Northeast Coastal Ocean Forecast System run by the Chen Lab at the University of
Massachusetts School for Marine Science and Technology in New
Bedford.
Announcements and Other News
All the best,
-George and JiM
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